Unexposed welcome to the program. 25 years ago today serb forces captured the boston town of separatists and carried out europes worst massacre since the 2nd world war a ceremony was held to remember the thousands of muslims killed serb general ratko modish was eventually convicted of war crimes and genocide but the families of the victims say they are still not at peace. The Bosnian National anthem played at a ceremony to remember the thousands of muslims killed on this day. The commemorations had to be scaled back to coronavirus but World Leaders like former u. S. President bill clinton who was in office at the time of the genocide contributed 5 video message. It is been profoundly moving. At every town every opportunity to continue they are my voice and those across the world who grieve for their family roles kill to support the ongoing efforts of sing justice those lost and recover their remains and bring them home to the european leaders also sent their condolences via video link
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming a public calling comment number. Its available by phone calling the number on your screen, th entering the i. D. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial star followed by 3 to be added to the queue. Turn down your televisi
good morning and welcome to the San Francisco transportation meet ing for today july 28, 202. Madam, clerk. Please call the roll. roll call we have a quorum. thank you. Before i ask the clerk to make a motion. I ask for a motion to excuse the absence. Can i get a second. second. accelerate we do that without objection . i believe so. No vote required. without objection. Commissioner is excused. Do you have any announcements . yes, i do, chair. Public comment maybe available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987. Follow the system prompts. When you wish to speak on an item dial one zero to be added to the queue to speak. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Calls will be taken in the order which received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. thank you madam, clerk. This month, i want to start by congratulating director of our Capital Projects. His project and partners at th
Fireworks spectacular and included a flyover by the blue angels in the shadow of washington, jefferson, lincoln and roosevelt. The president focused on the movement to remove confederate monuments. He claimed that leftwing mobs are removing statues of the founding fathers. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out history, defame heroes, erase values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, to face our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of Violent Crime in our cities. He only made a brief mention of coronavirus and few masks were seen. The president offered support for Law Enforcement think the attack on liberty must be stopped. The radical ideology attacking the country advances under the banner of social justice. Both justice and socie they want to silence us. We will not be silenced. There were tense moments before the arrival as officers broke up a protest by native american activists. About 15 people were arre
Please recommend this Charter Amendment to the full board of supervisors. We look forward to looking with you all to defund sfpd and reinvest in our communities. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker. Speaker good morning, supervisors. Im a resident of supervisor ronens district. I wanted to call again to thank you for listening to the community and removing maximized Police Presence and moving the Charter Amendment forward today. I wanted to just give a brief comment to the Organizational Work thats been happening and a shoutout to defund sfpd now. We look forward to meeting with you oneonone to discuss the concrete ways to cut the budget of the sfpd and this Charter Amendment is crucial because it gives us more flexibility in the budget and we need to reallocate resources to services that make us safe. Supervisor yee, thank you for bringing this forward. One comment i wanted to make is that, this is a predominantly black campaign and were turning out plentiy new voices a